Welcome to the digital home of Harrie Pieters, allround web developer, adventurer, aspiring maker and non-stop improver currently living in Amsterdam. Currently working as freelancer and available for hire.

On this website I write about the things I build, the books I read, my personal development and anything else I find interesting and worth sharing.

Blog post written on May 11 2017

Blog Challenge; A post mortem

It has been over a month now since I started my blogging challenge, and I just passed the one third mark. However, today I decided it is time to abandon the challenge in its current form. After stopping, and restarting again a week ago I was unable to write again in the last few days. As my writing is becoming more infrequent, I decided it was time to re-evaluate the 100 day challenge....

Live a more meaningful live by having less stuff. That is the promise of the minimalists. I recently watched their documentary, http://www.theminimalists.com/netflix/, on Netflix. I realised after a few minutes that I actually visited their website a couple of times in the past by chance....

I want to learn Spanish. I want to read books. I want to work on my side project. I want to play tennis. I want to improve my coding skills. I want to improve my french. I want to write well researched articles. I want to learn Japanese. I want to keep a journal of all my thoughts. I want to mediate....

Happy Earth Day everyone! I for one am very happy earth is still around and kicking. If you surfed the internet today I am sure you encountered the celebration somewhere, and that is a good thing. In today’s wor...

It has been a week since I started with a blog schedule in order to get some structure into my writing. So far I enjoy the structure, as it narrows down the topics to write about. I was afraid it might limit me in my inspiration...

Ever since the start of the industrial revolution cities have grown rapidly. This is leading to more and more over and densely populated cities. If you look for example at my hometown Amsterdam the housing prices...

Times are changing in internet infrastructure, and for the better! I remember, and starting to feel old, that the only way to host your website was pretty much own a physical server and rent rack space at a hosting company...

Time for my first project update! When starting this blog I had big ideas to create a special section on my website about the projects I am working on. As you might have noticed the section still isn’t finished...

Keeping consistent blog content has been hard up until this point. When discussing my blog with a colleague today, he mentioned the idea of daily theme’s. The idea seems good enough, have a theme for...

Not making a decision is in fact also a decision, to do nothing. It sounds so straight forward, yet I never thought about making decisions in this way. Turns out this is a favourite decision strategy of mine...

I am lacking inspiration for today’s blogpost, so it is going to be a quick update regarding the website. Since launching at the beginning of the month I haven’t touched any of the code or infrastructure.

It has been 3 weeks since I launched my website, and since launching I have done... well... nothing. My ambition to start writing blog posts still stands, but I haven’t set any deadlines or setup a schedule for writing.